Geneva, France and the Swiss Confederation 1798-1815

8 April 2024

Available in French, Dutch and German

Time keeps on ticking in the Musée international d’horlogerie de La Chaux-de-Fonds

1 April 2024

Everyone in modern society is familiar with the terms second, minute, hour, day, week, month, (leap) year, decade, century, millennium, day, night and seasons. However, who knows that a year does not have exactly 365 or 366 days (a leap year) but ‘only’ 365.2425 days ( the exact duration of one orbit of the Earth … Read more » “Time keeps on ticking in the Musée international d’horlogerie de La Chaux-de-Fonds”

Erasmus and Basel

20 March 2024

Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) spent eight years in Basel in four periods (1514-1516, 1521-1529, 1535-1536). Like many of his contemporaries, the humanist and scholar travelled throughout Europe. The elite of artists, scholars, students, traders, monks and spiritual and secular (aristocratic) rulers was much more European in the Middle Ages than nowadays. Holbein took care of the … Read more » “Erasmus and Basel”